>> Punahou’s J. Kai Yamafuji is up to 15-1 in the pole vault, incrementally better than his 15-0 earlier this season. Yamafuji has the best pole vault mark ever, at any level, in Hawaii at 16-0 (set in April 2018). He won the state title last year with a 14-4. The state-meet record is 15-3.

One relay team also recorded the fastest Hawaii mark for 2019. Punahou’s 4×100 team of Stevie Marvin, Grace Blanchette, Kaylie Klausing and Lexie Lowery ran a 50.67. The best previously this season was by Punahou in 51.17, with Kaila Ronquilio instead of Marvin. The state-meet mark is 48.35.

Punahou sophomore Chris Paige made a noteworthy effort in the 300 hurdles, finishing in 39.54. That’s just five one-hundredths of a second slower than Rey Cadiz‘s 39.49 for Baldwin. Cadiz, a senior, is the state-meet record-holder in the 110 hurdles (14.20). The 300 hurdles state-meet mark is 38.10.

An OIA Western Division Championship meet record nearly went down on Saturday in the 300 hurdles, when Radford senior Michael Edwards ran a 40.19, slightly slower than Al Washington of Radford’s 40.1 (handheld) in 1994.

Moku set an ILH intermediate championship meet record with an 11-3 in the pole vault. Moku won the pole vault — against high schoolers — at the Cal Track Ruby Tuesday Invitational in late March with a vault of 11 feet.

King’s 5-2 in the high jump earlier this season is better than any Hawaii high schooler so far. She was also a winner at the Ruby Tuesday meet, when she jumped 5-1.

If King can gain an inch every year for her four years of high school, she can break Natasha Kai‘s state-meet record of 5-5 set in 1999.

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